For the same reason, when the Qatari monarchy (which has invested billions of dollars in the armed attacks on Syria) presents an anonymous ... of former Free Syrian Army groups Harakat Ahrar as-Sham, Suqur …

She presents ... by the Syrian government. –Burns conflates a sectarian extremist fringe with an entire religious branch. When he refers to “Sunni” groups he actually means the Wahabi/Takfiri opposition such as …

In his speech at the Center for ... like Ahrar al-Sham, and al-Qaeda affiliated rebels, while radicalising the more secular remnants of the Free Syrian Army. Just as the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s drove …

Back then, there were other groups resisting Taraki's Marxist-oriented regime, but the US chose to support the ideological mujahideen. Among those championing ... "There is a whole generation of children in Syria and …

VICE •
2 years ago

http://www.vice.com/read/does-america-deserve-malala

The Dawn of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham

In the course of the Syrian Civil War, two major rebel factions have emerged who share al-Qaeda's ideology: Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), which was founded at the beginning of 2012 by Abu Mohammed al-Jowlani, and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS).

Middle East Forum •
3 years ago

http://www.meforum.org/3732/islamic-state-iraq-ash-sham

From Syria to Sulawesi: Could Mujahideen Indonesia Timor become an ISIS Ally?

A schism emerged among Syrian jihadist groups after al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri announced on February 3 that al-Qaeda has “no connection” to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham ... to Indonesia and revive JI under the umbrella of Mujahideen ...

With the second round of peace talks now completed in the Swiss city of Geneva and dynamics on the ground shifting as Syrian rebel forces battle the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS ... days of the Syrian civil war were more complex.

Spanish authorities also think he may have delivered surveillance tapes of the World Trade Center and ... Jaysh al Mujahideen said it hopes that “God will accept the noblest people of Sham [Syria] as martyrs.” The Caucasus Emirate (at least through ...

He presents a unique case of the outsized role a single person can play in the lawless world of the Syrian rebellion. He has positioned himself at the center of radical jihadist ... prominent among whom are Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), in ...

Syrian rebel groups have begun fierce fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and al- Sham (ISIS) across the north of the ... the Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF) and Jaysh al-Mujahideen (a new formation of 7-Aleppo based brigades), was quick to follow ...